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Who are the greatest phreakers, hackers, crackers, script kiddes, white hats, black hats?What are the greatest feats of hacking, cracking, or phreaking since the age of computers started?Give me ur opinions!

"Great" and "Script Kiddie" just don't feel right going together heh. It's a hard thing to really say who was the greatest of any of the other catagories though. I always loved John Draper's handle, though last I heard that phreaker was living out of a van somewhere... how sad is that? Some of the more entertaining hacks I've seen, are like the hack of the screens at a M$ conv showing up with penguines. That was pretty cool. I suppose you could point to Linux itself as being kind of a pivital 'hack' of Linus's Kernel and the GNU OS framework. Infact, the inherent moldability and openeness of the project and it's constant 'evolution' due to 'hacks' by hundreds of thousands of developers and hobbiests is pretty cool.

boney wrote:I think Gary McKinnon is the greatest hacker of all the times.

humor? i hope.

No .. i meant it !

why?

Chan wrote:The claim by the media that McKinnon is "worlds greatest hacker" is laughable. From what I've read he's one step up from a script kiddie, maybe not even a whole step, a skiddie with lifts in his shoes.

Unless I'm missing something the guy walked through poor security, including default, null or simple passwords. and still managed to get caught by the sysadmins that managed the poorly secured systems.

I'm sure this has been said before, 'the greatest hackers are the ones you don't hear about' (terminology and exeptions that prove the rule aside...)